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| author | Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> | 2017-11-30 15:36:35 -0800 |
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| committer | Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> | 2018-02-15 15:40:37 -0800 |
| commit | a7c8655b073d89303911c89d0fd9fc4be7631fbe (patch) | |
| tree | 11d473673df9f5d561224431bf46b92956dd31f4 /Documentation/timers | |
| parent | 398953e62ce3b27f9f7805e367195b7ee6705f57 (diff) | |
sched/isolation: Eliminate NO_HZ_FULL_ALL
Commit 6f1982fedd59 ("sched/isolation: Handle the nohz_full= parameter")
broke CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL_ALL=y kernels. This breakage is due to the code
under CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL_ALL failing to invoke the shiny new housekeeping
functions. This means that rcutorture scenario TREE04 now emits RCU CPU
stall warnings due to the RCU grace-period kthreads not being awakened
at a time of their choosing, or perhaps even not at all:
[ 27.731422] rcu_bh kthread starved for 21001 jiffies! g18446744073709551369 c18446744073709551368 f0x0 RCU_GP_WAIT_FQS(3) ->state=0x402 ->cpu=3
[ 27.731423] rcu_bh I14936 9 2 0x80080000
[ 27.731435] Call Trace:
[ 27.731440] __schedule+0x31a/0x6d0
[ 27.731442] schedule+0x31/0x80
[ 27.731446] schedule_timeout+0x15a/0x320
[ 27.731453] ? call_timer_fn+0x130/0x130
[ 27.731457] rcu_gp_kthread+0x66c/0xea0
[ 27.731458] ? rcu_gp_kthread+0x66c/0xea0
Because no one has complained about CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL_ALL=y being broken,
I hypothesize that no one is in fact using it, other than rcutorture.
This commit therefore eliminates CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL_ALL and updates
rcutorture's config files to instead use the nohz_full= kernel parameter
to put the desired CPUs into nohz_full mode.
Fixes: 6f1982fedd59 ("sched/isolation: Handle the nohz_full= parameter")
Reported-by: kernel test robot <xiaolong.ye@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@mellanox.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Luiz Capitulino <lcapitulino@redhat.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Wanpeng Li <kernellwp@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/timers')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/timers/NO_HZ.txt | 7 |
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/timers/NO_HZ.txt b/Documentation/timers/NO_HZ.txt index 2dcaf9adb7a7..9591092da5e0 100644 --- a/Documentation/timers/NO_HZ.txt +++ b/Documentation/timers/NO_HZ.txt @@ -131,13 +131,6 @@ error message, and the boot CPU will be removed from the mask. Note that this means that your system must have at least two CPUs in order for CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL=y to do anything for you. -Alternatively, the CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL_ALL=y Kconfig parameter specifies -that all CPUs other than the boot CPU are adaptive-ticks CPUs. This -Kconfig parameter will be overridden by the "nohz_full=" boot parameter, -so that if both the CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL_ALL=y Kconfig parameter and -the "nohz_full=1" boot parameter is specified, the boot parameter will -prevail so that only CPU 1 will be an adaptive-ticks CPU. - Finally, adaptive-ticks CPUs must have their RCU callbacks offloaded. This is covered in the "RCU IMPLICATIONS" section below. |